† aˈfingered, ppl. a. Obs.
3–4. Also afingred, afingret.
[For af-hingered, OE. of-hyngred, ofhungered, f. of + hunger. Cf. ahungered.]
Afflicted with hunger, famished, very hungry.
| c 1300 St. Brandan 416 Hi were Afingred sore, for here mete was al i-do. c 1300 Vox & Wolf 2 A vox gon out of the wode go, Afingret so, that him wes wo. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 269 After many manere metes his mawe is afyngred. 1547 Boorde Introd. Knowl. (1870) 122 (A Cornishman says) Iche chaym yll afyngred. |